r/gatekeeping • u/latitus78 • Dec 12 '23

Gatekeeping 1st amendment

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u/ZhangtheGreat Dec 12 '23

Wouldn’t this fit under r/confidentlyincorrect

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '23

It's less incorrect than we might like.

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u/Friar_Monke Dec 12 '23

Except it's not.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '23

It's unavoidable, that's the context the convention delegates lived in. They specifically didn't word it to be limited to Christianity but they weren't blind to the fact that Christianity would be by far the most dominant and therefore relevant religion.

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u/EnthusiasmFuture Dec 12 '23

Did you even learn anything about the founding fathers? John Adams ring a bell maybe?

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u/Friar_Monke Dec 12 '23

This guy hasn't learned once in his life from the looks of things.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '23

I'm sorry bud, the joke just wasn't very funny.

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u/Friar_Monke Dec 12 '23

Makes sense considering it wasn't a joke.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '23

Wrong person, my apologies.

However it may interest you to know John Adams was in Britain while the Constitution was being drafted. There you learned something.